What helped you accept your own sexuality and gender identity?

If I'm honest I went to Instagram and followed sooo many LGBT accounts that just got me really comfortable with knowing that this was who I was

Having the words to define different genders, sexualities, and romantic attractions; and having other people "testify" that sexuality and gender can be fluid and don't need to correlate with romantic feelings.

The fact that all people have different priorities and like or feel diffrent things. There is no wrong or right!

Personally It helped when I come out and was open to myself and others. After a while of opening up life was hard to be actuated due to the put down but after a year life got better.

Well, what helped me is, i didn't mind myself at all but, telling friends helped calmed me down just to get me comfortable with who i am, 'i am me' noone can change me. im still wondering on my gender but im trans at the moment, and my mind had helped me in that where i feel female emotions.

I learned to love myself no matter how I looked if I felt litre a woman I was a woman if I felt like a man I was a man if I was happy I was happy no matter how anyone else felt about it

Personally, I grew up in an environment where any sexuality was safe, so I didn't struggle with this. But I think the first step would be to admit it to yourself. Look in the mirror and just say it out loud.

Realizing that it was true. It took me a long time that was full of twists and turns and not being sure if I was this or that until finally I landed with what I stick with today. Realizing the truth of it helped me to accept it because I knew that there was a word for what I was feeling and that meant that I wasn't the only one to feel that way.

Reading lots of science fiction where queer people and different weird gender stuff happened and a lot of it was taken for granted. I had also been reading radical feminist books from the 70s about lesbians and as is typical of a lot of bi girls I applied it to myself and didn't understand yet that lesbians would hate me because I was bi. I was actually fine with myself *as myself* right away once I became queer as a teenager, because I had already been reading this stuff. The first time I noticed myself being attracted to a girl I thought, "Huh. Cool." The problem was in how to present myself to everyone else, because I didn't know of anyone at my high school who was queer and I was afraid people would think I was some kind of monster. I was not dating yet and was already refusing to talk about who I had crushes on, so becoming bi didn't change anything on the surface, except that I fell in love with my best friend and EVERYONE could tell.